Eight imperatives, six of the sharpest voices in European manufacturing, distilled into one document designed to be read in one sitting.
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Reliable margins. Predictable supply chains. The luxury of not having to change. Gone. Tariffs move weekly. Markets close overnight by executive order. A Chinese EV is developed in 18 months. A European one takes four to five years.
"If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu."Peter Wennink, Former CEO, ASML
The window for denial has closed. Every strategic assumption your company made before 2022 about stable trade relationships, predictable market access, reliable supply chains, rules-based competition, deserves reexamination. Not because those assumptions were wrong. They were right for their time, but the time has changed.
The companies that thrive in the next decade will not be the ones with the best strategy for the old world. They will be the ones who saw the new world first and moved. Speed of comprehension is now a competitive advantage in itself.
This means doing the uncomfortable work: mapping every strategic assumption in your current plan against the new reality. Which markets are exposed? Which supply chains are geopolitically fragile? Which technology partnerships depend on a world order that may not exist in five years?
The manifesto distils what was actually said at Re:Manufacture 2026. No committee-written summaries. No press-release language. The provocative, specific, uncomfortable parts.
Eight imperatives on where European manufacturing goes next, designed to be read in one sitting. Built for leaders who don't have time for keynote theater.
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